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@neeshy, it overlaps font names so applications might not pick the right format, ran into that before. I'm half certain that was from another package and not just made up on my own. but strictly speaking files you are right theres no real 'conflict'

There's no reason why this package would conflict with bdf-unifont, hex-unifont, pcf-unifont, and ttf-unifont-csur. Please remove the conflicts array from the PKGBUILD.

@artfox3,

The pango library in Gnome has abandoned support for Bitmap and Type 1 fonts because it relies upstream on harfbuzz for font loading, and harfbuzz dropped support. This means lots of old-school fonts are no longer supported if your desktop/GUI depends on Gnome libraries. (I think I explained that correctly....)

Please see these URLs for more info:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=248032

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386

OTB (Open Type Bitmap) fonts are supported. Fonts can be converted into Open Type, which uses an SFNT container around bitmaps, by the program fonttosfnt, in case that is of use to you. Here's something from Red Hat about font file formats:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/FontsPolicy/#_font_file_formats

I chased this down the rabbit hole because I need old fashioned X misc fixed fonts for my terminal displays. I'm old ;) HTH!

Clemmitt

Hi, sorry for my noob question but what's the advantages of using OTB format over the other formats like TTF, PCF or BDF. And can you also compare them according to there installation size. Thnx in advance.

I cannot find any need for any of these, hopefully this'll do

Hi,

xorg-font-utils has gone away; please see:

https://www.archlinux.org/todo/removal-of-xorg-font-utils-transitional-package/

Please depend on: xorg-bdftopcf / xorg-mkfontdir / xorg-mkfontscale / xorg-font-util as required. Thank you :^)

Clemmitt